Mumbai-based chef Harsh Kedia has created a 350-kg sugar-free modak for Sakinaka’s Maharaja. (Pics/Sayed Sameer Abedi)

The Maharashtra Forest Department has launched its first-ever leopard population estimation exercise in a non-forest landscape in Junnar taluka, Pune. Using camera traps across sugarcane fields and villages, the study aims to better understand leopard numbers and human-wildlife interactions. (Pics/Maharashtra Forest Department/Wildlife Conservation Society - India)